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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 16/12/23 12:16 pm:   
   > In article , Daniel65   
   >  wrote:   
   >> Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 12/12/23 4:26 pm:   
   >>> [Hal Heydt] I *can* write in C, though not well.  I spent a lot   
   >>> of years writing in COBOL, and I can make it do things that   
   >>> aren't always meant to be possible.  FORTRAN is kind of rusty.  I   
   >>> started with FORTAN II and later got FORTRAN IV (pretty easy   
   >>> transition). Never learned Pascal.  BASIC I get by in because I   
   >>> knew FORTRAN. Also learned and/or used a number of assembly   
   >>> languages...  SPS IID, Autocoder, ALC (aka BAL), COMPASS.   
   >>> (Points to those that can identify the machines or operating   
   >>> system those apply to.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Also got reasonably decent with SQL, which might or might not be   
   >>> considered a "laungauge".   
   >>>   
   >>> And then there's there other stuff like RPG and some similar   
   >>> languages whose names I've forgotten.  And the languages that I   
   >>> learned at one point and now can't even recall the names of.   
   >>> Ah, yes...  ALGOL was one of them.   
   >>>   
   >> In the late 80's/early 90's, I did (little bits of) BASIC, Fortran   
   >> and Pascal programing. Some writing in '1' and 'none' i.e. 'Zero'   
   >> which then got compiled on to Intel 8085, Zilog Z80 or Motorola   
   >> 6809 CPU's and I also taught basic/simple programing on those   
   >> CPU's.   
   >   
   > [Hal Heydt] I started learning to program in 1964...so BASIC, Pascal   
   > languages didn't exist, and neither did microprocessors.   
   >   
   > Among languages I forgot mention...SNOBOL.   
   >   
   Gee Whiz!! Seems almost everyone I meet on UseNet these days is older   
   than me .... way older!!   
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   Daniel   
      
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